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a generation of girls who will never get an education if the taliban prevail. the tipping point. the fate of the girl has come to symbolize the choice pakistan faces. it can let the extremists have their way or reject them and everything they stand for.pe >> sreenivasan: in another development, more than 100 militants attacked a pakistani police station overnight south of peshawar. the incident triggered a gun battle that raged for several hours. at least six policemen were killed, including two who were beheaded. a dozen others were wounded. in the philippines, muslim rebels agreed to a peace pact with the government after decades of fighting. the framework deal will give the muslim minority broad autonomy in the south of the mostly roman catholic nation. in exchange, the rebels must end all violence. the pact was signed in manila's presidential palace. the country's president and the leader of the rebels spoke afterward. >> good day. we extend the hand of friendship to the president and the people. we embark on the historic journey to rebuild our homeland. >> much work remains
a generation of girls who will never get an education if the taliban prevail. the tipping point. the fate of the girl has come to symbolize the choice pakistan faces. it can let the extremists have their way or reject them and everything they stand for.pe >> sreenivasan: in another development, more than 100 militants attacked a pakistani police station overnight south of peshawar. the incident triggered a gun battle that raged for several hours. at least six policemen were killed,...
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malala yousufzai has been an outspoken critic of taliban atrocities and a promoter of girls' education. the country's prime minister visited the girl's family today at a military hospital near islamabad. he called the shooting an attack on pakistan's core values. >> we pledge that we will not allow the future of our children to be endangered by the militant mind-set. we pledge that the enemies of pakistan will never be allowed to succeed. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, a military official said yousufzai is in satisfactory condition, after having a bullet removed from her neck. she's being kept unconscious and on a ventilator for now. this year's winner of the nobel prize for literature voiced hope today that a fellow chinese laureate will get out of prison. mo yan was honored with the literature award yesterday. at a news conference today, he said he hopes that dissident liu xiaobo regains his freedom very soon. liu won the nobel peace prize in 2010 after being sentenced to 11 years in prison for advocating an end to china's one-party rule. the space shuttle "endeavour" has begun a final,
malala yousufzai has been an outspoken critic of taliban atrocities and a promoter of girls' education. the country's prime minister visited the girl's family today at a military hospital near islamabad. he called the shooting an attack on pakistan's core values. >> we pledge that we will not allow the future of our children to be endangered by the militant mind-set. we pledge that the enemies of pakistan will never be allowed to succeed. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, a military...
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to the fatwa one of the things that fascinated was the description of your early years in india and educated in england. you present yourself as a secular muslim. but one trying to understand the relion and your rol in it. >> i mean i grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. my father wasn't religious at all. but he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of islam. he basically transmitted that interest to me. so when i studied history at cambridge, i did a special subject in that exactly. while i was studying it was where i came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses. >> brown: you say in the book youoted good story. >> 20 years later i find out how good a story it was. >> brown: you wrote when you finished the satanic verses you thought it was the least political of the novels you had written at the time. you were genuinely surprised at what had happened. >> i thought i was very respectful about islam. yes from a secular point of view but it talks about the birth of this religion and i thought it was pretty admiring of the pe
to the fatwa one of the things that fascinated was the description of your early years in india and educated in england. you present yourself as a secular muslim. but one trying to understand the relion and your rol in it. >> i mean i grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. my father wasn't religious at all. but he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of islam. he basically transmitted that interest to me. so when i studied history...